Xi arrives in Budapest for state visit to Hungary

China-EU Photo: VCG The European Parliament on Tuesday approved rules to ban goods produced by the so-called forced labor, which does not refer to but is believed to target China, thus casting a shadow on China-EU trade.Chinese analysts said on Wednesday that such a move, despite representing some China hawks within the bloc, cannot dominate the major trend of “stabilizing China-EU relations” and will face strong opposition in member states which maintain a pragmatic China policy.The US enacted a similar law in 2021 to ban products from Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region unless the a US company doing business with China can prove no forced labor is involved. The EU first mulled the ban in 2022.Authorities of EU member states or the European Commission will be able to investigate…